Program 12: Love Me 4 Me

Shorts Program, Sunday, Oct. 7 / 91 mins

As Karen Carpenter once sang: “You’ve got to love me for what I am, for simply being me.” This collection of shorts shows how it’s sometimes difficult to connect with people because of who they think you are.

In This Program: Sparrow, Foreign Lovers, Set Me As A Seal Upon Thine Heart (Simani ke’hotam al libha), The Things You Think I’m Thinking, For The Good Times

Program 13: Man Made

T Cooper / Documentary Feature, Special Guests, Sunday, Oct. 7 / USA / 2018 / 98 mins

Structured around preparations for Trans FitCon, Man Made follows four diverse men as they train for the world’s only trans-specific bodybuilding tournament. Writer/director/producer T. Cooper documents the story with great sensitivity and respect for their journeys as athletes and men in transition.

Program 14: You Should Meet My Son 2!

Keith Hartman / ASL Interpreted, Narrative Feature, Special Guests, Sunday, Oct. 7 / USA / 2018 / 76 mins

Eight years ago, ImageOut audiences met Brian, a total catch who somehow was still single. His mother, Mae, and Aunt Rose tried to play matchmaker, but each attempt was, in Mae’s words, “a swing and a miss.” Things changed once Mae and Rose realized Brian batted for the other team. Following a trip to the local gay bar, and with the assistance of the Lady Fantasia Extravaganza, Brian found love with Chase.

Preceded by: Matter and Manner

Program 15: Berenice (Berenice Procura)

Allan Fiterman / Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 7 / Brazil / 2017 / 90 mins

Berenice (Cláudia Abreu) drives a cab for a living. It’s a way to pay the bills, but at least it’s a job she enjoys – her days are always interesting, and it allows her to constantly meet new people. It also helps get her out of the house and offers her a bit of respite from a marriage that’s increasingly on the rocks.

Program 16: Chedeng and Apple

Rae Red and Fatrick Tabada / Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 7 / Philippines / 2017 / 87 mins

Chedeng (Gloria Diaz) has spent her life being a good woman: a good wife, a good mother, everything that was expected of her. But in the wake of her husband’s death, she decides it’s time to do something just for her: come out of the closet and go in search of the ex-girlfriend she hurt decades ago. It’s a big deal, to be sure, but just as she’s ready to head out, she gets a panicked phone call from her best friend Apple (Elizabeth Oropesa).

Program 17: Retablo

Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio L. / Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 7 / Germany, Norway, Peru / 2017 / 101 mins

Taking its name from the intricate, handmade altarpieces created by its protagonists, Retablo is a beautiful, heartfelt story of love and redemption.

Program 18: Eva + Candela (¿Cómo te llamas?)

Ruth Caudeli / Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 7 / Colombia / 2018 / 84 mins

Eva + Candela (also known by the title, What’s Your Name?) takes us on an amazing journey through the inception, rise, decline, and fall of a lesbian relationship. It’s beautiful, sexy, heart-wrenching and most of all, utterly relatable.

Precedes: Eva – Candela (Eva menos Candela)

Program 19: Cola de Mono

Alberto Fuguet / Subtitled, ImageOut There! Series, Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 7 / Chile / 2018 / 102 mins

For many, Christmas Eve is full of warm family gatherings and joyful festivities. But for Borja and his older brother Vicente, Christmas Eve 1986 would instead be an indelible night of life-changing sexual discovery.